Published: Jan. 16, 2020

The CU Boulder campus will begin a yearlong campus dialogue on academicfreedom with a Feb. 19 panel discussion titled “Faculty and Academic Freedom: Exploring meaning and application.”A follow-up event will be hosted next fall focusing on how students experience and benefit from academic freedom.

The yearlong dialogue and the panel discussion are both co-sponsored byProvost Russell Moore and Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs Michele Moses.

Moore said he is sponsoring the campus dialogue and all its activitiesbecause “in the current moment, where issues of freedom of speech oncampus are often in the news, issues of academic freedom sometimes get subsumed and muddied.” The panel discussion on Feb. 19 will be moderatedby Moore and Moses.

“We will be looking at what academic freedom is and how it differs fromfreedom of speech and expression,” said Moses. “We will be asking questionssuch as what does the First Amendment protect—and not protect—and how is that related to and different from academic freedom? Who has academic freedom and what does academic freedom mean for babyֱapp members as teachers,researchers and artists? Also, what does it mean for students?”

Moore gave further context on the purpose of the panel.

“We hope this panel will provide our campus community with an opportunityfor dialogue and reflection about the rights and responsibilities academicfreedom requires for babyֱapp and the opportunities it affords students for rich experiences in the classroom, laboratory and studio,” Moore said.

For more information on the panel, .

Faculty and Academic Freedom: Exploring meaning and application

³󲹳:A panel discussion on what academic freedom means for babyֱapp membersas teachers, researchers, and artists, and what their rights and responsibilities areunder its tenets.

When: 5 to 6:30 p.m., Feb. 19

Where: Hale Science, room 270

Panelists:

  • Sarah Fahmy, president of UGGS, PhD student and graduate part-time instructor in theatre and performance studies, Department of Theatre and Dance, Arts & Sciences
  • Alexander Lloyd, senior assistant university counsel, CU Boulder
  • Helen Norton, professor, babyֱapp Law
  • Anand E. Sokhey, associate professor of political science, Arts and Sciences

Moderators:

  • Russell Moore, provost
  • Michele Moses, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for babyֱapp affairs